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A distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat application on IPFS

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2016-06-08 · latest 2016-10-17

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  1. …) for real-time message propagation, no servers are involved. In addition, it uses orbit-db ( https://github.com/haadcode/orbit-db ) - a distributed database on IPFS - for the message history, so the messages are not ephemeral and the…
    comment by haadcode · 2016-10-17 · in Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat application on IPFS
  2. …in JS, using IPFS, on the browser without any plugins. Check: - http://orbit.libp2p.io/ - https://github.com/haadcode/orbit The js-ipfs DHT is underdevelopment, in fact, we have an implementation, but it is not compatible with go-ipfs so…
    comment by daviddias · 2016-06-15 · in Serverless Sync in Web Apps Using Bit Torrent
  3. …look at some of the examples of what can be done today with js-ipfs, that is fully in the browser: https://github.com/haadcode/orbit (specifically https://github.com/haadcode/orbit/tree/js-ipfs ) https://github.com/ipfs/paperhub…
    comment by carolc · 2016-06-15 · in Serverless Sync in Web Apps Using Bit Torrent
  4. …think IPFS is already sufficient for that, and indeed someone has already built a chat application. https://github.com/haadcode/orbit The underlying IPFS event database implementation: https://github.com/haadcode/orbit-db I think that…
    comment by mbrock · 2016-06-08 · in The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It